Timing Is Everything: The Complete Timing Guide to Cooking

This is not a review of "Cats", but now and foreever is the position this book will have in my kitchen library.Cooking is my hobby. I don't cook every day for my family. I prefer to have two or three couples over for a great meal, rather than eat in a restaurant. Most of the time I intuit recipes half remembered from my childhood or from a great dining experience. Discerning how long a certain cut of meat should cook, or how much time I should allow for potatoes or carrots to be sauteed, boiled or steamed so that they come out at the same time as the main dish is a problem when you cook the way I do. Up to now, I have had to wade through cookbooks looking for similar recipes or rely on their dreaded meat temperature cooking chart. I have found that cookbooks are all over the lot! One cookbook's medium roast beef temperature is another book's well done. One book will tell you to boil potatoes for x minutes for mashing, another one will say y minutes, and neither will tell you wether you are boiling the potatoes whole, halved, or quartered. Timing is Everything solves that problem. It is painstakingly accurate, well organized, and seems to anticipate my questions as I am formulating them. It is basic. It is informative. It is a permanent fixture in my kitchen library, and will be until I stop eating, which is as close to forever as I can get.

This book gives you confidence in cooking like your grandmother and mother had...It makes sense and takes the work out of putting a delicious meal together with ease..A little of this; a little of that...I learned to trust myself in the kitchen again! Thanks, Mr. Piccolo!

Being the busy Sicilian that I am, I don't have time to fiddle with recipes, figure this and that out. I need immediate imformation that guides me to the perfect meal, quick and easy. Mr. Piccolo's book is also a vital guide to those romantic evenings when a delicious and eloquent meal is necessary with that someone special. "Timing is Everything" really hit the spot with me!

This is a great idea for a cookbook because it recaptures, at least while we are cooking dinner, what modern life steals from the rest of our day: time. By saving me from spending too many minutes cooking my pasta, I am not just getting better dinner but I can play a bit longer with my 10 year old. Thank you Mr. Piccolo!

This easy to use book has been incredibly helpful. It will be an indispensable reference for anyone who cooks.